Silhouette Studio Designer Edition Not Allowing Change Of Mat

Feb 26 2018 i often hear from people who want to know how to change the mat or background color in silhouette studio.

Silhouette studio designer edition not allowing change of mat.

The latest version of silhouette studio is not in use. While it s not possible to permanently change the color of the virtual mat in silhouette studi. Here s a quick little tutorial video to show you how to ungroup an svg cut file when the option is not available to you within silhouette studio designer s edition. Converting measurements in silhouette studio may 9 2017 by pam here in australia we use metric measurements but i ve noticed that as a paper crafter i need a fairly good knowledge of both the metric and the imperial system.

Some people find this helpful when designing so they can see how their design will look on different color backgrounds. Silhouette studio designer edition gives you the ability to open svg or pdf files that have been created in other software programs. You go to ungroup the file only to find out that the option is grayed out. I was so far off.

The material is not being loaded placed properly onto. The mat or material is not being loaded properly. The software should find it. To access this feature in the designer edition go to the open icon.

If you don t have a mat selected and you are on a mat part of your design could be cut off of the vinyl i ve made this mistake a few times and it. Like our awesome facebook page here for daily. The cutting mat settings in the software do not match the actual set up. If you ve been purchasing svg cut files for awhile you ve probably loaded a file and needed to make a little tweak to it.

If you are using letter size cardstock on the cameo and not the full 12 12 mat you need to move the plastic roller on the right in to the notches towards the middle so that the roller grabs the edge of the mat. Silhouette software will change the way they cut your design if there is a mat or not. The mat should be lined up with the gray line on the bottom part of the cameo not pushed all the way up against the gray cylinder. I get a message saying windows installer isn t accessible says it s either in safe mode or installed incorrectly.

Set up your silhouette studio workspace to include specific sizes like 8 5 x 11 or to cut longer than the mat.